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Rosie the deer

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The Rhodesian Ridgeback, an African canine breed that was once used to hunt lions, is normally not associated with the phrase ‘like a little deer’. But Rosie, our five-year-old Ridgeback looks just like that as she sleeps, curled up on the rug she’s wrestled into just the right mound of folds and wrinkles that make it her bona fide napping place, looks just like that. (more…)

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Fido, come home!

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The latest entry on my technological almost-too-good-to-be-true list is a service that links would be pet-adopters with dogs and cats desperately in need of a home like theirs. Check out www.1-800-save-a-pet.com.

You sign up to receive information about a specific kind of adoptable pet, say a Labrador Retriever. You also input your zip code on the assumption that you’d rather travel 7 miles to pick up little Fido than, say seventy-seven. After that, it’s simple. You receive emails with the name and description of adorable little guys and gals that very much need your love and stability. (more…)

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the house as castle: House & Garden magazine

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House and Garden is a big, beautiful, in-your-face collection of colors and designs for the well-heeled reader without children in diapers or other unstylish impediments to the concept of home as castle. (more…)

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the big daddy: Golf Digest magazine

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Golf Digest is the big daddy of a well-populated family of golf publications. It’s self-styled tag line–‘The #1 Golf Publication’–is well-earned. (more…)

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pragmatic, uneven, essential: Evangelical Missions Quarterly

Posted in clarity, denkschrift, missio dei, reseña on July 30, 2007| Leave a Comment »

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EMQ is a quarterly publication out of Wheaton College’s Billy Graham Center that is perhaps best described as a periodical written by and for missionaries and practitioners of Christian mission. Its articles tend towards the pragmatic and away from the theoretical, in contrast by way of example with the International Bulletin of Missionary Research. (more…)

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I was at hand: Amadeus – Director’s Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition)

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Brilliantly conceived, movingly enacted, grandiose in scope, this epic fiction intertwines the life of the miserable but gifted Mozart with the envious, correct, but ultimately mediocre Antonio Salieri. The result is a showcase of cinematic talent set to the score of some of Mozart’s finest music. (more…)

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getting to know your backyard: Stan Tekiela, Trees of Indiana Field Guide

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These field guides are excellent resources for the novice, whether they treat of fauna like your region’s birds or flora like your trees. This is because they group each specimen visually for easy location: by color for birds and by leave structure for trees.

You can hardly find a better niche for getting a toehold on your Indiana backyard’s critters and trees. (more…)

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hearing is believing: Richard K. Walton, Peterson Field Guides: Backyard Bird Song

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Because the approach of this splendid CD is so straightforward, its value may best be explained by a first-person account of a user.

I’ve been enjoying backyard birds in my home in Costa Rica and now in Indiana for many years. Yet I’ve only rarely felt confident about linking a bird’s song to its appearance. I guess I’m a visual guy. Birdsong sounded good but taught me almost nothing. (more…)

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birthing tales while the aliens circle: Signs (DVD)

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The opening scenes of this mock-horror film, accompanied by the incessant cawing of crows, are terrifying, reminiscent of Mr Hitchcock’s mastery.

Then comes the humor. Rarely has so much ironic, self-deprecating humor been laid down so consistently in the Scary Movie genre. (more…)

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all thing well: Chris Tomlin, Arriving

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When people complain about the shallowness of all modern worship music, they haven’t heard Chris Tomlin. The singer has mastered Christian doxology that achieves true praise—the adoration of God rather than the introspection of self while one worships—by wedding language impregnated with biblical vocabulary to singable melody. (more…)

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